Coat and hat hanger.



J. W. McKAY & P. J. SMITH.

GOAT AND HAT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9,1912.

1,969,71 3, Patented Aug. 12; 1913.

ATEN FFICE.

JOHN W. MoKAY AND FRANK JOHN SMITH, OF HOWARD TOWNSHIP, KENT COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA.

COAT AND HAT HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A11 12,1913.

Application filed September 9, 1912. Serial No. 719,500.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, J o1-IN VVILnUnY Mo- KAY and F RANK JOHN SMITH, citizens of the Dominion of Canada, residing in the township of Howard, in the county of Kent and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Coat and Hat Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in coat and hat hangers for automobiles, buggies and other like vehicles.

The object of our invention is to provide a convenient hanger for use in vehicles especially, but may be used in any place, where by coats and other garments and hats may be hung up and not be blown away by the wind or otherwise drop off the hook from jarring or other motion of the vehicle. \Ve attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1. is a front view of the hanger; Fig. 2, a side view and Fig. 3 a section of the spring as it appears when separate from the hanger.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A is the plate of the hanger which is screwed to any elevated part of the vehicle, preferably the bow of the top. This plate has a hook B at its lower end and apin D passing through outward turned lugs, E at the upper end. Under the pin D is shoved the end of the spring C fully shown by Fig. 3.

To use the hanger, the spring C is drawn forward, the garment and hat are placed on the hook and the spring allowed to go back on top of hat, thus holding both in place and preventing them being blown away or dropping off.

It will be seen that the upper or free end of the spring is frictionally interposed between the plate A, and the pin D, which constitut-es means for frictionally gripping the spring so as not only to permit adjustment of the spring toward or from the hook but also ready detachment of the spring from the plate A. It will also be seen that the coiled portion of the spring presents a convex portion toward the concave portion of the hook thereby serving to more effectively grip the article to be held therebet-ween.

e claim:

1. As an article of the class described, a spring hook structure comprising in combination, a supporting element and a hook with a spring co-acting with the hook for holding an article on the latter, said sup porting element having means frictionally gripping said spring to permit of adjustment of the same toward or from said hook or detachment of said spring from said supporting element, substantially as described.

2. A hook structure comprising a combination, an elongated supporting plate provided near one end with an upwardly curved hook and integrally formed lugs near the other end thereof, a pin extending through said lugs and in space relation with respect to said supporting plate, and a spring strip having its free end loosely inserted between the back or supporting plate and said pin for longitudinal adjustment with respect to the hook to accommodate articles of difierent size and having its remaining end coiled and presenting a convex portion adjacent the concave portion ofthe hook for engagementof an article on opposite sides thereof, substantially as described.

JOHN MOKAY. FRANK JOHN SMITH. lVitnesses CON. E. SHEA, S. G. KINsnY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

